The great translator Stephen Mitchell (the poetry of Rilke, The Book of Job, Tao te Ching…) met an old girlfriend many years after they had been together. After spending some days together catching up she said to him, “”If I could have wished anything for you, it would have been that you might become the person you’ve become.”
from this fascinating article about Mitchell in the Los Angeles Times:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-stephen-mitchell12-2009apr12,0,631455,full.story
Posted on April 15th 2009 in Uncategorized
